German Court Questions Strings on ECB Bond Buys

By

Brian Blackstone,

Christopher Lawton and

Friedrich Geiger

June 12, 2013 4:00 p.m. ET

KARLSRUHE, Germany—The top judge at Germany's constitutional court questioned on Wednesday whether the strings attached to any bond purchases by the European Central Bank would be strict enough to protect German taxpayers.

On the final day of hearings into the legality of the ECB's main measure for dealing with the euro-zone debt crisis, Andreas Vosskuhle, president of the court, said there were certain promises that can't always be...